At a certain university, there was a professor with a reputation for being
tough on Christians. At the first class every semester, he asked if anyone
was a Christian and proceeded to degrade them and to mock their statement
of
faith.
One semester, he asked the question and a young man raised his hand when
asked if anyone was a Christian. The professor asked, "Did God make
everything, young man?"
He replied, "Yes sir He did!"
The professor responded, "If God made everything, then He made evil." The
student didn't have a response and the professor was happy to have once
again proved the Christian faith to be a myth.
Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you something, sir?"
"Yes, you may," responded the professor.
The young man stood up and said "Sir, is there such thing as cold?"
"Of course there is, what kind of question is that? Haven't you ever been
cold?"
The young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we consider
to be cold is really an absence of heat. Absolute zero is when there is
absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist. We have only created
that term to describe how we feel when heat is not there."
The young man continued, "Sir, is there such a thing as dark?"
Once again, the professor responded, "Of course there is."
And once again, the student replied, "Actually, sir, darkness does not
exist. Darkness is really only the absence of light. Darkness is only a
term
man developed to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such thing as evil?"
The professor responded, "Of course. We have rapes, murders, and violence
everywhere in the world, those things are evil."
The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is simply
the
absence of God. Evil is a term man developed to describe the absence of
God.
God did not create evil. It isn't like truth, or love, which exist as
virtues like heat or light. Evil is simply the state where God is not
present, like cold without heat or darkness without light."
The professor had nothing to say............
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